RE: What is it? RE: Cocoon on the iSeries

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ram,

The best source for information on Cocoon is the Cocoon web site. It is

at xml.apache.org. I will also forward an article I wrote a few months
ago
that describes running Cocoon on the iSeries. Also, I am starting to
work
on a web site hosted at Source Forge that supports the code mentioned
in that article and also includes some tools that make it easier to use

things like Cocoon on the iSeries. I will post a note when the site is
a little
further along.

In general, Cocoon is a publishing platform. It is a great fit when you
need
to take some content to multiple formats. Those formats might be WML,
HTML, PDF, or XHTML. Cocoon provides the plumbing that supports
the transformation and delivery of your content. It can be used to
build
transaction based applications, but publication is the focus.

David Morris


>>> RamM@Mvmills.com 11/15/01 10:08AM >>>
Can someone post instructions about installing and running cocoon on
the
iSeries? Or point me to a location where I can find these.
I am reading all the exciting stuff about Cocoon. But I have questions
like
do I need PASE installed, websphere installed, which version of JDK
etc...

thanks in advance.

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From: Ducret, Gilles (CH) [mailto:Gilles.DUCRET@LloydsBank.ch]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:07 AM
To: 'java400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: What is it? RE: Cocoon on the iSeries


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I don't know how you would do that directly, but Cocoon provides the
functionnalities
easily.

The URL you access is an XML file.

This file, contains the data, can be dynamically created.

You just have to tell to Cocoon what you want to do with this file:
        - what is the XSL transformation file
        - what is the expected format (PDF, HTML, WAP)

Once this file is accessed and the XML data obtained, Cocoon use the
given
XSL file to generate
the given output.

As a result it is really easy to get the kind of presentation you
want.

You have to generate the XML (statically or dynamically)
Tell what is the output
Write the XSL file.

I suggest you have a look at the http://xml.apache.org web site

Gilles


-----Original Message-----
From: BMIROW@aol.com [mailto:BMIROW@aol.com]
Sent: jeudi, 15. novembre 2001 16:58
To: java400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: What is it? RE: Cocoon on the iSeries


How does this differ than using FOP to convert an XML file to PDF or
Xalan
to convert an XML to HTML using  tag libraries.

Barry